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DBMS > BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. EDB Postgres vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. EDB Postgres vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Sphinx

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgblueflood.iowww.enterprisedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHRackspaceEnterpriseDBFairCom CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20072013200519792001
Current release11.0, June 202414, December 2021V3, October 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no

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